The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s October 1, 2026 order in IPR2025-01254 is a useful reminder that while PTAB proceedings are presumptively public, the Board will protect genuinely confidential business information when the movant makes a sufficient showing. In this order, the Board granted the Patent Owner’s motions to seal, allowing certain materials to remain non-public under the applicable protective…
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A federal court in North Carolina has declined to dismiss antitrust claims brought by state enforcers against RealPage, allowing a closely watched challenge to rental-pricing software to proceed even after the company reached a settlement with the federal government. The ruling is a notable reminder that federal resolution does not necessarily end parallel state antitrust exposure.

The case centers on…
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8am is one of my favorite legal tech vendors. it has been historicaly focused on the unsexy back-office stuff that small and mid-size firms really need. Cash flow. Billing. Getting paid. Not trying to be everything to everybody. It puts on a great conference. But in today’s a legal tech world where money is pouring in, I wonder whether 8am will…
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The Federal Trade Commission, joined by the attorneys general of Utah and Nevada, has filed a new consumer-protection action against Lens.com, alleging the online contact-lens seller misrepresented prices in search advertisements and on its website over an extended period. According to regulators, the company used pricing tactics that made products appear cheaper than they actually were, a theory that puts…
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The Tenth Circuit’s September 29, 2026 opinion in 25-3171 is a useful reminder that appellate outcomes often turn as much on procedure and standards of review as on the underlying merits. Although the caption provided in the docket materials is spare, the court’s decision appears to focus on how the record, preservation of issues, and the governing standard of review…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. A profound structural shift is underway inside advanced research laboratories, and it has almost nothing to do with generating conversational marketing copy. In the session titled Designing the Future, Bob Metcalfe, legendary Ethernet co-inventor and chair of the MIT Corporation, sat down with prominent venture investor Mark Gorenberg, founder and managing…
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a state-court action against Pfizer and its CEO, Albert Bourla, alleging the company misled consumers about the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The suit adds a high-profile state enforcement action to the already complex body of litigation stemming from pandemic-era vaccine marketing, and it could become a closely watched test of…
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Following this week’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright battle against the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence,  ROSS says it will seek review in the Supreme Court. Yar Chaikovsky, partner at White & Case, issued a statement on behalf of ROSS disagreeing with the ruling and promising…
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Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan. 1, 2028, CEO Phil Saunders said Thursday, and he had a blunt message for partners who are not on board: “Know we’re going to run through you.”Saunders made the comments during a media briefing on the last day of Relativity…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. In modern corporate cybersecurity, an uncomfortable truth has emerged: the bad guys adopted generative artificial intelligence faster, more aggressively, and with far fewer ethical inhibitions than corporate boardrooms. During the session titled AI x Cybersecurity, Tom Kellermann, Vice President of AI Security and Threat Research at Trend Micro (AI), joined virtually…
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Key points:

  • Study of roughly 37,000 U.S. lawyers finds 47.5% screen high for work-related burnout; 41.1% said legal profession has been detrimental to their mental health
  • Many lawyers reported experiencing depression (21.6%), anxiety (20.4%), stress (18.9%), hazardous drinking (42%), and work-life conflict (35.9%)
  • Respondents call for profession to do more, saying barriers like confidentiality concerns (53.3%) and

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The Prudent AI Series: A Field Guide for the Next Era of Enterprise StrategyRecently, I completed a ten-part series on AI strategy and operations on this blog about Prudent AI. It grew out of a simple observation: most corporate conversations about artificial intelligence are trapped in a false binary.On one side, vendor hype insists you must automate everything by…
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